If I say that euthanasia should be illegal because murder violates the law of God, then obviously I suppose that there is a God, that He has a law, that this law ought to be obeyed, that it forbids murder, that euthanasia is murder, and that He requires human authority to back him up on such a point.
If any Underground Thomists are in Tucson on the evening of Thursday, February 26, you may be interested in an autobiographical talk I’ve been asked to give at a Veritas Forum at the University of Arizona. The title is “Why I Am Not an Atheist.”
"Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. Now the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our author and our end.”
Political theory is a branch of the theory of how to live. If God is our greatest good, then of course the truth about Him will make a difference to how to live.
The expression “self-deception” is not to be taken literally; what happens is that I try not to think about certain things, and I try not to think about the fact that I am trying not to think about them.
Every honest college teacher – at least every one who has been around long enough to judge -- knows that teaching, really teaching, is getting more and more difficult. One reason is the prolongation of adolescence, which I discussed yesterday. But there are others.
Mondays are for letters from students. This one is a doctoral candidate in Dallas.
Question
You may have noticed that animals have a sense of fun, but not a sense of humor. James V. Schall, S.J., explains why: